Download or read book High Diamonds written by Margaret Castle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-19 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few of us are dealt life? winning hand. But one can stay in the game long enough by playing with a Minor suit. Win the game by learning to set Trumps. That? the way it is in Marlboro Country, a land of high finance, non-stop partying, megadeals and penthouse scandal. Stockbrokers, computer jockeys, oil and gas moguls, and sugar daddies on the prowl cleverly package themselves, readying for a winner-take-all finish. The glittering life among Denver? skyscrapers brings unexpected side trips as they hurdle around the bases of life. They?e been caught on Second but looking for more. Here everybody? sharp and trying to ?teal?Third. Get that far, you need someone to hit you Home. If not, you?e stranded. Inning over. Game over. Then there? Angela McMillan. She? running with the fast crowd and balanced precariously between her ?op producer?career and her secret at home? powerful husband with exotic needs. And he wants her money too. If money turns you on, you?l love to run with this crowd. They?e making lots of cash and spending it fast. But pray to God and lock your door. A shot in the night changes the game completely.
Download or read book HPHT Treated Diamonds written by Inga A. Dobrinets and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-temperature and high-pressure treatment of diamond is becoming an important technology to elaborate diamonds. This is the first book providing a comprehensive review of the properties of HPHT-treated diamonds, based on the analysis of published data and the work of the authors. The book gives a detailed analysis of the physics of transformation of internal structures of diamonds subjected to HPHT treatment and discusses how these transformations can be detected using methods of optical microscopy and spectroscopy. It also gives practical recommendations for the recognition of HPHT-treated diamonds. The book is written in a language and terms which can be understood by a broad audience of physicists, mineralogists and gemologists.
Download or read book Graff written by Vivienne Becker and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look into the exclusive world of Graff, the British-owned luxury purveyor of unique jewels, one-of-a-kind statement pieces, and the most famous diamonds in the world. The House of Graff is synonymous with the pinnacle of luxurious, sophisticated style, the exclusive glamour and exquisite craftsmanship of its creations a singular complement to the world-famous gemstones that have passed through its master craftsmen's hands. Laurence Graff's gift of releasing the hidden beauty within gems of unprecedented size and brilliance has led to Graff being renowned as home to "the most fabulous jewels in the world." Spotlighted are famed stones such as the 603-carat Lesotho Promise, which Graff daringly cut into a necklace of 26 perfect stones; the largest square Fancy Vivid Yellow diamond in the world, the 118.08-carat Delaire Sunrise; and the largest D Flawless round diamond in the world, the Graff Constellation, at 102.79 carats. This volume showcases the best of the House of Graff--the most dramatic, the most mesmerizing, and the most exceptional jewels in the world. Included is the story of the creation of Graff, portrayed through archival photos and the words of founder Laurence Graff.
Download or read book Something to Believe In written by Rupesh Shah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where trust in politicians, corporations and the processes that determine our lives continues to dwindle, this innovative book brings together research, case studies and stories that begin to answer a central question for society: How we can create organisations, institutions, groups and societies that can nurture trusting relationships with one another and among individuals?Something to Believe In provides a fresh take on the corporate responsibility debate, based as it is on the work of key global thinkers on corporate social responsibility, along with a raft of work developed from collaborations between the New Academy of Business and the United Nations Volunteers, UK Department for International Development and TERI-Europe in countries such as Brazil, Nicaragua, Ghana, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and South Africa. The focus is on business, and particularly how deeper, more systemic changes to current ways of understanding and undertaking business can and have been enacted in both developed countries and in nations where the Western concept of CSR means nothing. The market-based model of economic thinking-the increasingly distrusted globalisation project-which threatens to sweep all before it is challenged by many of the contributions to this book.The book tells stories such as the mobilization of civil society in Ghana to bring business to account; the reorientation of a business school to focus on values; the life-cycle of ethical chocolate; the accountability of the diamond business in a war zone; the need to reinvent codes of conduct for women workers in the plantations and factories of Nicaragua; a Philippine initiative to economically empower former Moslem liberation fighters; and the development of local governance practices in a South African eco-village.The book is split into four sections. "Through Some Looking Glasses" contains short, thought-provoking pieces about the issues of trust, belief and change from writers including Thabo Mbeki, Malcolm McIntosh and a reprinted piece from E.M. Forster. Section Two asks how it will be possible to believe in our corporations and provides new approaches from around the world on how space is being opened up to found businesses that are able to create trust. Section Three examines the role of auditing in fostering trust. Corporations continue to attempt to engender trust through their activities in philanthropy, reporting and voluntary programmes. But, post-Enron et al., even the most highly praised corporate mission statements are tarnished. Can social and environmental audits of corporate reports, codes and practices assuage our doubts about boardroom democracy? Section Four examines alternative forms of accountability, transparency and governance from around the world and offers some different ways of thinking about the practice of creating trust in society.Something to Believe In provides a host of fascinating suggestions about redefining and renewing the underlying deal between society and its organizations. It will become a key text for students, thinkers and practitioners in the field of corporate responsibility.
Download or read book Card Games written by Tim Ander and published by CRB Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here’s How You Can Spend Your Rainy Afternoons & Midsummer Nights Playing Card Games With Your Friends! Looking for a fun and engaging way to spend quality time with your kids or friends? Want to learn how to play some of the most popular card games? We’ve got exactly what you need! Introducing The Ultimate Card Games Bundle – The #1 All-Inclusive Guide To The 10 Most Popular Party Card Games! Sick and tired of play charades all the time? Need another way to spend your summer nights or winter afternoons? Now you can easily and quickly learn the rules and strategies of some of the most popular and thrilling card games and spend endless hours of fun with your friends! 10 Different Card Game Guides For The Price Of One! By the end of this incredible card game multi-guide, you will be able to play: • Bridge • Canasta • Cribbage • Euchre • Hearts • Pinochle • Rummy • Solitaire • Spades • Whist And That’s Not All! Author Tim Ander, has included everything you might need for a fun night of cards in this all-in-one card game guide. Learn everything from rules, terminology, tips, variations, beginner’s strategies and winning strategies for ALL 10 games! Save Your Precious Time & Effort While Mastering Ultra-Fun Card Games! If you have ever tried learning the rules of card game online, then you already know how frustrating it is to constantly pause the video, write down notes and trying to figure out how to play the game. Well, the good news is that NOW YOU DON’T HAVE TO! This practical and easy-to-follow guide will offer you the opportunity to quickly and easily learn the fundamentals of each card game, understand its strategies and spend hours of fun playing with your friends or loved ones! What Are You Waiting For? Click “Buy Now” & Start Organizing Your Next Game Night!
Download or read book Despite the Best Intentions written by Amanda E. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Through five years' worth of interviews and data-gathering at Riverview, John Diamond and Amanda Lewis have created a rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that persists more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation. As students progress from elementary school to middle school to high school, their level of academic achievement increasingly tracks along racial lines, with white and Asian students maintaining higher GPAs and standardized testing scores, taking more advanced classes, and attaining better college admission results than their black and Latino counterparts. Most research to date has focused on the role of poverty, family stability, and other external influences in explaining poor performance at school, especially in urban contexts. Diamond and Lewis instead situate their research in a suburban school, and look at what factors within the school itself could be causing the disparity. Most crucially, they challenge many common explanations of the 'racial achievement gap,' exploring what race actually means in this situation, and why it matters. An in-depth study with far-reaching consequences, Despite the Best Intentions revolutionizes our understanding of both the knotty problem of academic disparities and the larger question of the color line in American society.
Download or read book How To Play Hearts written by Tim Ander and published by CRB Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you an “all or nothing” type of person? Then, perhaps Hearts is a game that was designed just for you! In fact, Hearts is a trick-taking game but it’s nothing like other trick-taking games. That’s because it is actually a game of evasion! Thinking that you need to take as many tricks as possible to win is the first mistake of most people attempting to play Hearts. Want To Start Playing Hearts But Don’t Know Where To Start? Start Here! Hearts is an excellent game you can be played with 4 players but it can also be modified for 3,5 or even 6 players, in case you have less or more players available but still want to play it with your friends and family. From A Complete Beginner To A Hearts Master! Doesn’t matter if you are a total beginner or if you already know a thing or two about Hearts. This book will take your skills to the next level, no matter what! If you are a beginner in the world of Hearts, the book will teach you the basic rules so that you can play the game with your friends and not be crushed by the opposition! If you are already somewhat familiar with the game, don’t worry…there’s still a lot of room for improvement, something that you are soon about to find out! This Hearts guide will arm you with tricks and strategies as well as information about similar Hearts variations that will skyrocket your potential in the game. Why Read This Comprehensive Hearts Guide? Because upon finishing the book, you will: • …know everything you need to get started playing the game right away • …understand the basic and additional rules of the game • …discover tried and tested Hearts strategies to stand a chance even against powerful and experienced players • …know the tricks and rules of other Hearts Variations so that you never grow tired of the game So What Are You Still Waiting For? Pick Up This Book And Start Reading! It’s The Only Way To Become A Hearts Master!
Download or read book Acres of Diamonds written by Russell H. Conwell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell H. Conwell Founder Of Temple University Philadelphia.
Download or read book How to Play a Bridge Hand written by William S. Root and published by Crown. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither for beginners nor for experts but for the 90 percent of players in between, How to Play a Bridge Hand includes more than 300 of bridge master William Root's favorite hands. Hailed by the American Bridge Teachers' Association as the "Book of the Year." Line drawings.
Download or read book The New Complete Hoyle Revised written by Albert Hodges Morehead and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rules for more than 350 games
Download or read book Barnga written by Sivasailam Thiagarajan and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quite simply, Thiagi is the most prolific and creative designer of games and simulations in the world." - Glenn Parker, author of Cross-Functional Teams and Team Players and Teamwork Wholly revised to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Barnga is the classic simulation game for exploring communication challenges across cultures. While playing Barnga, participants experience the shock of realizing that despite their good intentions and the many similarities amongst themselves, people interpret things differently, one from the other, in profoundly important ways, especially people from differing cultures. Players learn that they must understand and reconcile these differences if they want to function effectively in a cross-cultural group. The "game" is deceptively simple: participants, broken up into several small groups, play a simple card, never knowing that each group has been given a subtly different set of rules to play by, nor that those rules will change yet again as the game develops and groups of players are reconfigured. Conflicts quickly begin to occur as players move from group to group, simulating real cross-cultural encounters, where people initially believe they share the same understanding of the basic rules and learn to their dismay and confusion that they do not. In discovering that the rules are different, players undergo a mini culture shock similar to actual experience when entering a different culture. They then must struggle to understand and reconcile these differences to play the game effectively in their "cross-cultural" groups. Difficulties are magnified by the fact that players may not speak to each other but can communicate only through gestures or pictures. In struggling to understand why other players don't seem to be playing correctly, and with the aid of the facilitator, participants gain insight into the dynamics of cross-cultural encounters. Participant instructions are provided in French, German, and Spanish as well as English. The 25th anniversary edition of Barnga introduces new features: - Now, as few as 2 and as many as 40 people can play! - Revised, play-tested rules provide optimal jolt to players. - Improved game design helps those with limited experience playing card games. - Partnership play enables players to comprehend the impact of peer support. - Different tournament formats raise new types of communication challenges. - For trainers - an expanded debriefing section that takes less than an hour.
Download or read book Determining the Economic Value of Water written by Robert Alton Young and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive exposition of the application of non-market economic valuation methods to proposed water resources investments and policies.
Download or read book Precision Abrasive Grinding in the 21st Century written by Harry G. Sachsel, C.A.E. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of this book, Precision Abrasive Grinding in the 21st Century, began more than thirty-five years ago with the writing of “How To” technical briefs that went with our abrasive products so that one has a better understanding of the product and with the application could be better used. I continued to write “How To” technical briefs with and about new precision abrasive grinding products and systems. During the day, working on precision abrasive grinding applications, new ideas and information were learned. I wanted to retain this knowledge, so I decided to write the technical briefs. I wrote in the middle of the night. This was a great time to write down on a large yellow pad, my experiences of the day. This has continued for more than twenty years resulting in these two hundred sixty plus chapters and twelve sections. Unless one writes or records information, it can be lost or forgotten. In addition, you can learn more about the application and how to improve upon it by reviewing your notes and making changes. The chapters are not only a source of information for me, but now in book form, these can achieve abrasive product information for others. While writing about my precision abrasive application experiences, I wrote them in layman’s language so that all could gain and learn from me. Manufacturing, precision abrasive grinding, and life are a constant changing situation. So are the materials that are being used in all the new products. In the past, a simple metal product could be machined, heat-treated, and then ground if necessary, but now no longer is that true. Material science has developed new lightweight, hard metal, abrasive, ceramic, aerospace, medical, electronic materials that only abrasives can remove, size, shape, and finish. In the past, the use of abrasives and precision abrasive grinding was looked upon as an art . . . but not any longer as it has now become a true science. Here I’m in the year 2010 with all its problems and difficulties. War, unemployment, and all the other problems that you can think of, but here is one area with a bright light and that is manufacturing with precision abrasive grinding. It has to do with increasing productivity and making a better product at a competitive cost so that work once again comes back to USA. This will increase employment, productivity, profits, and make better products. This is why I’m having this book published. Harry G. Sachsel, CAE. E-mail: [email protected]
Download or read book Winning Contract Bridge written by Edgar Kaplan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge.
Download or read book The Queen s Diamonds written by Hugh Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, this book tells the story of the royal inheritance of diamonds from the time of Queen Adelaide in the 1830s to Elizabeth II.
Download or read book The Bridge World s Test Your Play written by Jeff Rubens and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the world's most prestigious bridge magazine, 'The Bridge World' each month features a column entitled 'Test Your Play', which consists of two difficult problems in declarer play for readers to solve. In this book, Jeff Rubens has collected some of his favourite hands from this column, and presents them as a compendium for those who like a serious intellectual challenge. There is a steady market for problem books of this kind and this collection is guaranteed to be of high quality.
Download or read book DIAMONDS English Edition written by and published by Marijan Dundek. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
